After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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